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High School Sports

  • Day reflects on varsity play as freshman

    BRIGHTON — Ten years of soccer, endless days of practice, maintaining a 3.64 grade point average and playing varsity soccer as a freshman is just another day at the office for Sara Day.
        Not many freshmen get the opportunity to play varsity soccer. For some, playing time is minimal at best. For Day, she made the team thanks to her confidence.

  • Deziree Lipsett forced out of rugby because of concussion

    LAKEWOOD — Brighton’s Deziree Lipsett took time out from track and field to play rugby in the fall.

  • Prairie View High in need of new coaches, some sooner than others

    BRIGHTON — Prairie View athletic director Rich Affleck may wind up with a working vacation this summer.
        He needs to find three coaches to fill out his roster, and one of those spots needs to be filled real quick.
        Jason Oulman stepped down as the boys soccer coach after five seasons at the helm to spend more time with his family. He’ll stay on as the girls coach.

  • BHS’ Reynolds soaks in tournament experience

    PHOENIX — Brighton’s Conner Reynolds is home from Arizona with a treasure trove of stories and memories from his participation in a national baseball tournament for high school sophomores.

  • First summer team camp goes well for Bulldogs

    GRAND JUNCTION – Brighton football coach Pat Sandoval came out of a summer team camp at Colorado Mesa University a happy man.

                “Camp was great. The boys played great,” he said. “We have a couple of players dinged up but should be OK. We represented Brighton well and proud.”

                This was the Bulldogs’ second consecutive year of attendance at the Mesa camp.

  • PVHS football scrimmage at UNC canceled

    HENDERSON — Prairie View’s football team canceled a scrimmage at the University of Northern Colorado between June 4 and June 7.
        “They did not have enough team interest for their 11-man camp,” second-year coach Todd Riccio said.
        Instead, the T-Hawks held their own camp and scrimmaged against Columbine, Rangeview and Eagelcrest.
        “We did quite well,” Riccio said. “We got everything we wanted out of the camp and scrimmage.”

  • Whether Adams County or Alamosa, Prairie View’s Wilson holds court

    ALAMOSA — Prairie View’s Jordan Wilson started her stint in the Colorado High School Coaches Association’s girls all-state girls basketball game with an honor.
        She was a co-captain of her squad for the game that was at Ortega Middle School in Alamosa. Then she proceeded to score six of her team’s points in the first quarter.

  • Mescher ‘surprised’ by spring track success

    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Former Brighton High School multisport athlete Kayla Mescher did a little better than just OK this track season at Augustana College.
        She provisionally qualified for — but did not get into — the 800-meter run and the 400-meter hurdles in the NCAA Division II national championships. Mescher was 28th in the nation in the 400-meters, and the top 20 received the invitations.

  • Smith, Martin wrap up prep careers with victory at all-state football game

    ALAMOSA — The four-hour trip from Brighton to Alamosa paid off in more ways than one for Brighton’s Anthony Smith and Devin Martin.
        They were among the players selected for the Colorado High School Coaches Association all-state football game at Adams State University Friday night.

  • Wittmus strikes out 10 in Generals' win

    Todd Reynolds

    Special to the Blade

    The Denver Generals, which includes some ex-Brighton High School baseball players, and the Denver Titans passed the lead back and forth five times Monday at Rockies Field. But in the end, the Generals pulled out a 9-6 win.

    Zac Wittmus struck out 10, paving the way for the win. Wittmus allowed two earned runs, four hits and three walks over 6 2/3 innings.

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